The importance of using a professional website design companyThe importance of using a professional website design company
It is estimated that nearly 1.8 billion people will be online by 2012. This represents under a quarter of the world's population. In such a growing, competetive market you need a web design company to help take your online business to the next level through well thought out design and implementation.
How can the internet help grow your business online?
Having a website live on the internet is not enough anymore. The world wide web has changed dynamically over the years and has become a competitive market. Have you considered which aspects of your business to incorporate into your website and how? You have the opportunity to expose your services or products to a global market 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. If done properly you can gain massive exposure for your business.

How your website functions will be a large part of your success online. For example, you can offer materials, products or services at little overhead cost to you. You can gather information through forms from your customers or clients. You can delegate various tasks or workloads to your website and automate processes. You can decide to what degree and how your website will help grow your business.
How do you envision your website as a presentation to your clients or customers?
A first impression means everything. Depending on your business type or niche market you may want a website that is interactive, modern, clean, fresh, professional, concise, exciting, personal or inviting. The colors used create the mood. The font styles used convey the message. It is important to understand that the graphic design, the layout, the photos and the pictures all weigh heavily on the success and appeal of your website. Your business should be branded and recognizable online.
What long term goals do you have for your website?
How do you want to establish yourself online? How do you anticipate your business growth through the internet? A website properly designed and executed will help put into motion your future success. Constructing your website for not only today but tomorrow can help minimize maintenance costs and future redesign expenses.
About Golden Oak Web Design
We are a professional web design firm located in Scottsdale, Arizona. Our experience goes back well into the 90's and we are versed in multiple programming languages. We do website design (including blogs, forums, shopping carts and e-commerce sites), website redesign, search engine marketing, graphic design and logo design. Depending on the project or depending on what you need, we will help find a solution for you.

Address:

Golden Oak Web Design
11445 E Via Linda, Suite 2-479
Scottsdale, AZ 85259

Hours: Monday - Friday 7AM-8PM MST
Phone: (602) 539-6865
Fax: (866) 941-4881

E-Mail:

info@goldenoakwebdesign.com
Services that we presently offer:

• custom creation of your website
• redesign of your old website
• e-commerce, shopping cart
• search engine marketing
• graphic design / flash design
• logo design
• business cards, printed material
• affordable maintenance plans
• domains, hosting, e-mail, ssl

Click here to fill out the request form for a phone call appointment and a free quote!

The design processThe design process
As your website is constructed you will be working with a web designer one-on-one through email and over the phone. Any materials necessary to complete the project can be emailed directly to the web designer. Questions regarding the design process can also be directed to the web designer. The following is the web design process from start to finish:

• Initial phone appointment is conducted so web designer can introduce himself/herself to client. Any
  material or content necessary to design the template will be given to web designer.

• Construction of template design begins.

• Client approves template design.

• Construction of website begins. Additional content or material can be added as the website is built
  within the template.

• Website is uploaded to client’s server or a 3rd party server for approval.

• If requested, web designer will optimize site for search engine optimization.

• Client approves final website design. If any further improvements need to be made, it will be done
  at this time.

Additonal software and information
Apart from creating your website from the ground up, we can also use various content management systems as an alternative or in addition to your website construction. Additionally you can improve upon your website interactivity with forums, blogs, shopping carts, guestbooks and so on. Below is a list of free 3rd party software that we have installed on our server. You may also request for us to use 3rd party software not listed below.

Blog

Geeklog, Lifetype, Nucleus, reBlog, Serendipity, Wordpress

Classifieds

Noah's Classifieds

Content Management System (CMS)

Community Server, Dolphin, DotNetNuke, Dragonfly, Drupal, Joomla!, Mambo, PostNuke, Xoops

Forum

Simple Machines Forum (SMF), Vanilla Forum

Miscellaneous / Other

Aardvark Top Sites, Advanced Guestbook, Advanced Poll, Openads, Opendb, paFileDB, phpCollab, phpMyFaq, pmWiki

Photo Gallery

4images, Coppermine, Gallery

Shopping Cart

osCommerce, Zen Cart

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